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Arriving at Confluence is an interdisciplinary graduate conference organized by the Draper Student Organization. This semester’s conference focuses on the connections between social upheaval and new forms of media/art.

Presentations include:

“Toward a Cinema of Revolution: 18 Days in Tahrir Square”Walker Gunning

“Dawn of the Web: Cyber Anxiety and Zombies”Weldon Press

“And out of the rubble comes a glorious noise: Artistic Responses to Violence & Collapse in Ireland”Yvonne Garrett

“Street Art Intervention: ‘Ossario’”Nicholaus Gutierrez

As well as fiction and poetry selections from the Draper Program’s graduate journal, Anamesa.